Survivors of child abuse within the Catholic Church are taking their former diocese to court after allegations of an institutional cover-up going back decades. The claims – dating back to
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Failures by police and prosecutors meant three chances were missed to charge Lord Greville Janner over sex abuse claims, an independent report has found. Alleged victims of the late peer
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A number of care homes and public bodies will come under the spotlight of the Goddard Inquiry as it resumes its probe into the late Lord Janner affair. Following the
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Lord Janner’s child sex abuse case has been formally dropped in light of the 87-year-old’s death. Legal proceedings were left in limbo last month following the announcement that the elderly
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A senior family court judge says most sexual abuse goes undetected and has questioned whether claims are always “adequately” investigated. Mr Justice Peter Jackson says people who have the “courage”
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Labour MP Simon Danczuk is facing a police probe after being accused of a historical rape. A spokesman for Lancashire Police said: “We can confirm that we have received a
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Child abuse victims will begin giving testimonies for the first time next week about their ordeal as part of the huge independent inquiry into alleged sexual abuse in Westminster and
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Scotland Yard has brought all its ongoing historic child sex abuse investigations together under the control of a single team of detectives. Operation Midland, which is investigating allegations of murder
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Two panel members have been appointed to Scotland’s Historic Child Abuse Inquiry by Education Secretary Angela Constance. Glenn Houston and Professor Michael Lamb will undertake the important work of the
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Information provided by victims to the independent child abuse inquiry has been deleted, it has emerged. The inquiry said that due to a change in its website address on September
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